| Genre: | Reality show |
| Producer: | Endemol |
| Runtime: | 185-225 min |
| Creator: | John de Mol |
| Director: | Sergio Colabona (2016–2017) Marco Fuortes (2016–) Alessio Pollacci (2017–) |
| Presenter: | Ilary Blasi (2016–2018) Alfonso Signorini (2020–) |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Network: | Canale 5 (main show) La5 (live) Italia 1 (live) Mediaset Extra (live) |
| Last Aired: | present |
| Num Series: | 7 |
| Related: | Grande Fratello |
Grande Fratello VIP is the celebrity version of Grande Fratello, the Italian version of the reality television franchise Big Brother.[1]
Based on the original Dutch version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of "housemates", divided by gender, social backgrounds and geographical locations, locked up together in a house, where the viewing public can watch them twenty-four hours a day, and vote them out of the house as they choose.
The housemates can visit the "confessional" at any time during the day, either to talk to psychologists if they need to, talk to "Big Brother", or to nominate.
The title is inspired by the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel tells of a Big Brother, head of the totalitarian state of Oceania that constantly monitors its inhabitants by camera in an attempt to suppress their free will. The tag line of the novel is "Big Brother is watching you", which inspired the show, as it is Big Brother who now has total control over the situation in the house.
The housemates live in a house 24 hours a day, bugged by numerous cameras and microphones which capture their every move. Every week the housemates participate in tasks that determine their food budget for that week, or could even affect that week's nominations. The overall goal is to be the final surviving housemate and claim the prize fund. A PlayStation game based on this version was released in 2003.
| Seasons | Launch date | Finale date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Presenter | Opinionist | Social room | Direction | Grand prize | Average viewers (in millions) | Average share | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In studio | In connection | Popular | Reporter | Radio broadcaster | Internet company | Home | Studio | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 19 September 2016 | 7 November 2016 | 50 | 14 | Alessia Macari | Ilary Blasi | Alfonso Signorini | none | none | Alessandro Sansone | R101 | none | Sergio Colabona | Marco Fuortes | €100,000 | 4,19 | 21.73% | ||||
| 2 | 11 September 2017 | 4 December 2017 | 85 | 20 | Daniele Bossari | Gialappa's Band | Alessio Pollacci | 4,86 | 25.65% | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 24 September 2018 | 10 December 2018 | 78 | 23 | Walter Nudo | none | none | 3,41 | 20.04% | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 8 January 2020 | 8 April 2020 | 92 | 29 | Paola Di Benedetto | Alfonso Signorini | Pupo | Wanda Nara | none | 3,41 | 18.83% | ||||||||||
| 5 | 14 September 2020 | 1 March 2021 | 169 | 34 | Tommaso Zorzi | Antonella Elia | 3,30 | 19.04% | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 13 September 2021 | 14 March 2022 | 183 | 38 | Jessica Hailé Selassié | Adriana Volpe | Sonia Bruganelli | Laura Freddi | Adriana Maria Rota | Rosella Rota | Linkem | 3,09 | 20.20% | ||||||||
| 7 | 19 September 2022 | 3 April 2023 | 197 | 35 | Nikita Pelizon | Orietta Berti | Soleil Sorge | Pierpaolo Pretelli | none | Giulia Salemi | 2,65 | 20.58% | |||||||||